After much initial brouhaha, she pulled out of her last endeavor, Uninhibited perfume. She is less successful in her other business dealings. She is just finishing a seven-year contract promoting Bally’s Health & Tennis Corp., and has co-written a book called Forever Fit, which Bantam will publish in January. Though she doesn’t enjoy playing Las Vegas, she commands $400,000 a night there, and her latest contract with Steve Wynn requires her to spend four weeks at his Mirage hotel within the next two years.
She has also been getting royalties for twenty-five years from her best-selling albums. “I’m my own boss.” Four million dollars is now her asking price for a motion picture, and according to her divorce settlement with her husband of ten years, Sonny Bono (who is now a restaurateur and mayor of Palm Springs, California), she is entitled to 50 percent of the hefty royalties from all the songs they wrote together. “I don’t have a boss,” Cher tells me, still sounding like that sixteen-year-old girl. Twenty-eight years later, she may not be an instinctive businesswoman, but she is an instinctive spender. Indeed, money has remained the most important cosmetic for Cher, the poor California girl who ran away from home when she was sixteen. Though it costs $10,000 just to house the crew each time they stop on the road, Cher is grossing more than $1 million every week. Seventy people, including security guards, are needed each night to put on her newest show, a garishly costumed combination of Las Vegas outlandishness and rude rock ‘n’ roll aptly titled “Heart of Stone.” Why, I am thinking, after winning an Oscar for best actress in Moonstruck, is Cher still busting (and exposing) her tattooed butt doing one-night stands? “I gotta make a living” is her simple explanation. S/o Modern Life Mag for the opportunity.Cher’s customized tour bus comes barreling down a Connecticut back road, heading for the local fairground, on the latest leg of an eight-month tour that will ultimately take the studded star across America, Canada, Australia, and Europe. But just know bigger moves on the way, a lot of art on the way, and hella merch on the way. I'm trying to go as far as my talents will take me, God’s still writing the story so I can't give too many previews. I didn’t jump in the art game to get to a certain point and be content.
It's a lot of people that know who I am and what I do now but it’s a lot of people who don’t. I plan to really apply pressure in the months to come. What do you have planned in the near future? What are you looking to accomplish? I don’t like using tags, I want my style to resonate with the viewer to the point where they want to find me. I think my approach is different from a lot of other artists, and I set out for it to be that way. My goal everytime is to visually portray the vibes that the listener is getting from hearing it. What can you say about the art/covers you make? They are all undoubtedly in their own lane, it isn’t hard to tell if you created the art? I also manage recording artist, AlliKnow who is set to release music very soon. Nowadays I’ve been working closely with members of the Decent Militia, a music collective from Chicago with a crazy sound. Me and Jayaire linked up based on mutual respect for each others craft and we made something that I feel is important to the culture. Trees42morrow is a classic, I had fun working on the cover art for that project.
You made the cover art for his mixtape "Trees42morrow." What else can you tell us about you all's relationship? Any other songs you suggest? In the recap video, the song playing is "Seatbelt" by Jayaire Woods. My team reached out to him, but he still ended up selling close to 90 units. Next thing I knew he DM’ed me a picture of my Aaliyah piece stamped on a hat. I appreciated the love but I wasn’t fucking with the collab. It all really started from him direct messaging me about a possible collab. Yeah man, that was really just a crazy experience. Don’t let Jeremy Thomas go unnoticed.įirst off! Did someone really try selling hats with your artwork printed on them? You live in a world where all real artists have the opportunity to not go unseen. What you’re seeing is this consistency in all of his art that can’t be described but only consumed. Scroll a couple of yards with your thumb on any of his social media accounts and it’ll become obvious to you too.
His social media is a well-kept archive of works that could only be created by one individual. With art ranging from Hood Chronicles to XXL Freshman Balloon series, Jeremy Thomas is a master of portrayal.